Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins
{{Short description|Brazilian entomologist (1932–2015)}}
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| birth_name = Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|7|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|5|26|1932|7|8|df=y}}
| death_place = São Paulo, Brazil
| fields = Entomology
| workplaces = Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo
| alma_mater = Universidade Federal de Viçosa
| doctoral_advisor = Paulo Vanzolini
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| known_for = Ubirajara R. Martins, Bira
| author_abbrev_zoo = Martins, U.R.
| awards = 1964 Guggenheim Fellowship for Organismic Biology & Ecology{{cite web|title=Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ubirajara-ribeiro-martins-de-souza/|website=Fellows|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|access-date=27 May 2015}}
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Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins (8 July 1932 – 26 May 2015) was a Brazilian entomologist.
Biography
Martins was born on 8 July 1932, in São Paulo. He concluded his studies at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in agronomy.
Martins then proceeded to work at the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo where he obtained his PhD in 1975 and conducted his research until his death in 2015.{{cite web|title=Docentes|url=http://www.mz.usp.br/?page_id=336|website=Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo Official Website|publisher=MZUSP|access-date=27 May 2015|location=São Paulo, Brazil|language=pt}}{{cite web|title=Falecimento do Prof. Dr. Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza|url=http://www.mz.usp.br/?p=4901|website=MZUSP Official Website|publisher=Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo|access-date=28 May 2015|location=Brazil|language=pt|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528055204/http://www.mz.usp.br/?p=4901|archive-date=28 May 2015}} He was a colleague of Werner Bokermann, who named one frog species after him (Bokermannohyla martinsi).{{cite journal|last1=Bokermann|first1=W.C.A.|title=Dos nuevas espécies de Hyla de Minas Gerais y notas sobre Hyla alvarengai Bok. (Amphibia, Salientia, Hylidae)|journal=Neotropica|date=1964|volume=10|pages=67–76}} He himself described many new species of beetles, and often co-authored other descriptions.
He was president of the Brazilian Entomological Society from 1983 to 1986. Bira, as he was kindly called by his colleagues and students, worked at the Museum of Zoology of University of São Paulo since 1959. He became one of the most important coleopterists of his time and an expert in the South American Cerambycidae.{{cite web|title=Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza|url=http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783983U8|website=Currículo Lattes|publisher=Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq|access-date=27 May 2015|location=Brazil|language=pt}}{{cite web|title=Diretoria|url=http://www.sbe.ufpr.br/diretoria.html|website=Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia|publisher=Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia|access-date=27 May 2015|location=Brazil|language=pt}}
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Category:Scientists from São Paulo
Category:Brazilian entomologists
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